Specs Who LeVar Burton Age 57 Claim to fame Emmy-winning actor (Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation); host and producer of Reading Rainbow; author of the children’s book The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm (available Oct. 7) Base Los Angeles Twitter @levarburton What’s the first information you consume in the morning? My email, followed by my Twitter feed, followed by the Today show. Twitter is where I get the majority of my news. What other social platforms are you on? I have a Facebook account which enables me to keep up with friends and family, but I’m much more of a voyeur there. I don’t do a whole lot of posting. It really just gives me an opportunity to stay current with what the family’s doing. I was an early adopter on Twitter, and it’s like a relationship. You have to invest in it, you know? I don’t have an Instagram account. I’m all in on Twitter, for better or worse. Who do you follow on Twitter? I like to follow people who make me laugh, so I follow Rob Delaney, I follow Gloria Fallon—I find Jimmy’s sister Gloria hysterically funny—I follow Jesus Christ, I follow Stewie Griffin. I really do get a lot of value out of those unexpected laughs throughout the course of the day. Your Kickstarter campaign to revive Reading Rainbow raised $5.4 million. Had you ever done any sort of crowdfunding before? I had pledged to a couple of campaigns, but this was my first crowdfunding effort. I had been aware of Kickstarter for a couple of years and watched it mature,... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 06/07/2011 - 09:19 The third edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is to be released online later this year by ESF Ltd, a new company set up by the contributors to the book, in association with Orion imprint Victor Gollancz. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 07:32 Lauren Beukes's Zoo City has been honoured with the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction novel of the year, being tipped to bring "a whole new readership" to the genre. Zoo City's publisher Angry Robot Books has also... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Tue, 26/04/2011 - 08:26 Hodder has paired up with Bentley Motors to create an exclusive edition of the new James Bond novel Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver, available to pre-order from today (26th April). The 500 limited edition copies, each priced at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 09:45 The BBC is broadcasting an item on The Culture Show about science fiction next month, in the wake of a row about the broadcasters approach to genre fiction. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 18/04/2011 - 09:19 Authors including Iain M Banks and Michael Moorcock have written to the BBC's director general Mark Thompson, attacking the treatment of genre fiction in its recent World Book Night coverage. In total 85 authors, across the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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